HROB*2010 Presentation
Michelle Obama
By: Meghan Bayes-Fleming, Laura Shantz,
MengfeiLi & Lauren McElroy
Brief Overview of Michelle
Wife of Barack Obama
The 44th President of the United States
Degree from Princeton University in Sociology,
and Harvard

One in 10 said they had felt pressure at their company to compromise
ethical standards or violate the law.
This fact did not surprise me at all, because I believe that every person has
three sides. There is the side that the public see (ie. Your co-worker

You are also required to evaluate the theories you have chosen to
understand this leader. In this evaluation, the objective is not to
restate the strengths and weaknesses of the theories/approaches as
outlined in your text. Rather, you are asked to think

A number of terms are used to describe the experiences of women in leadership,
among them glass ceiling, labyrinth, glass cliff and velvet ghetto. Which of these is most
fitting, in your view?
Can you provide an example to substantiate your choice?
What o

I agree that it is important when working for an employer, that the employee is able to trust
their manager or boss. Based on personal experience when I used to work in catering, we
would have 6 or more managers and based on what event we would be doing,

The second blog was very interesting to me, as it discussed topics that are
easily relatable to students. When it comes to presentations in front of a
class, a lot of things go through my mind. If I go first, I get it over and done
with, and by the time t

The style approach helped us understand Michelle Obama because it is divided into two different
sections. Task-oriented and relationship-oriented. While Michelle is more prominent in displaying
relationship-oriented leadership abilities, she does show som

HROB*2010 Study Guide
Chapter 2 The Trait Approach
One of the first systematic attempts to study leadership
Studied to determine what made people great leaders
Stogdills second survey also identified traits that were positively associated
with leadership.

LEADERSHIP EXAM CHEAT SHEET:
1) LEADERSHIP:
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Leadership is about people, it is about investing in relationships and the currency
of leadership is INFLUENCE
Management is about roles, processes and material things
The currency of management is CONTROL
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F

Chapter 1: What Does It Mean to Be a Leader?
The Need for Leadership
Introduction
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Confidence in leaders is sinking and suspicion and distrust are rising
Without good leadership our intuitions and our society would fall apart
James McGregor Burns conclud

Chapter 1 - ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND MANAGEMENT
What are organizations?
Organizations are social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group
effort.
Social Inventions
The field of organizational behavior is about understanding people and m

Types of crises:
Whether the effect of a financial crisis differs depending on the types of crisis, each of
three crises would likely lead to a period of heightened uncertainty.
Three financial crises:
Banking
Currency
Debt
Result:
- By analyzing three

Dear Board of Directors,
Recently, an abnormal increase in the volume of our firms shares being traded on the
open market. In the view of this situation, I suspect that an outsider is starting to buy
up our shares by surprise in order to perform the hosti

According to the behavioral approach, how would you describe Susans leadership?
The Behavioural approach looks at the different reactions and emotions that
the leader portrays; the actions they choose to take, and how the react in
certain situations. When

1. Transformational leadership is where a leader works with their team to
identify where their strengths and weaknesses lie. The leader will then take
action to identify where change needs to occur, and this change will take
place. The leader will motivat

1. I believe that this team effectiveness is inadequate. While the team is
able to make decisions, it doesnt mean the decisions are made cohesively.
A team needs to work together, and in this case it appears that the leaders
are dictating the outcome with

1. What accounts for Andys success in the restaurant business?
When accounts for Andys success is Andys ability to connect with people,
and how he always serves the highest quality of food. It is important to
figure out what works for a restaurant, and wh

1. As these runners are new to marathon running, they are lacking experience like group 3 has,
therefore David must provide the proper education and coaching to ensure they are successful.
As they do not have experience and knowledge about marathons, they

HROB *2010
My understanding of leadership is when you have one person in control of
a team, where they are delegating responsibilities to the members. Being a
leader should not be dictatorship though, instead the leader needs to be
respectful of everyone.

Group Work Contract
OVERVIEW
This assignment is to get you and your group talking about roles and expectations as you work
together throughout the term. The more you bring this kind of communication to the surface, the
richer group experience you will hav

HROB Reflection #2
In my opinion, I think the roles which all of the members are changing with different situation. In
other words, everybody in this group choose different roles to play between Teacher and
Student. As the one of members in this group, I

HROB Personal Development Paper
Overview of self-assessment
The online self-assessment is a sort of good tool to understand what kind of personality
we belong to. I have get the final result through series of online self-assessment surveys. Such as:
Type

HROB Reflection#3
In terms of this activity, the role we play is same for ever one in the group. I share my
personality test result about my personal feeling to my group members and analysis it.
More specifically, we exchange the test result with each oth